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Date: | Sun, 7 Feb 1999 16:01:58 -0600 |
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This theme has been interesting, but does seem full of assumptions and not
much legal accuracy. I am fortunate to live with a Judge so he pulled out
the statutes,(granted we live in Kansas-but he said this definition is
predominant nationally.
KSA 21-3412 Battery. Battery is :
(a) Intentionally or recklessly causing bodily harm to another person;
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(b) intentionally causing physical contact with another person when
done in a rude, insulting or angry manner.
Battery is a class B person misdemeanor.
I find it hard to believe that if a person is seeking your assistance with
breastfeeding and you touch her or her baby, that that action could ever be
defined or found as battery. I think the policeman in the one example given
was not speaking from a knowledge base, or else he assumed that the contact
was done in a rude, insulting or angry manner. By the way my husband find
the courtroom scenes on TV as distressing as we all find the medical shows.
There is a lot of misinformation out there!
Thanks for listening,
Libby Rosen, RN, IBCLC
Topeka, Kansas
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